Philip Taylor Kramer

Philip Taylor Kramer, one-time bassist for the rock group Iron Butterfly, disappeared on February 12, 1995.

Several facts are known. Kramer had become heavily involved in the occult, being influenced by the new president of the company he was at who was a New Age practitioner and who believed that he was half human and half alien. Kramer was working with his father on a top secret communications project, involving faster-than-light speed transmissions, employing gravitational waves and magnetic particles. There had been speculation that he was abduction by a top government agency.

Ron Bushy, Iron Butterfly's co-founder, was working with Kramer to schedule an Iron Butterfly reunion tour at the time of his disappearance. When the Union Tribune talked with Bushy about Kramer's disappearance, Bushy said, "I honestly believe that he has been abducted by our government or an agency that is part of it or maybe a foreign government or a company."

Current research on the detection of gravity waves consists of hugely massive aluminum or niobium cylinders, sitting inside of superconducting tubs of liquid nitrogen deep underground. The only events capable of producing gravity waves of a high enough intensity to be detected by such devices is a supernova, the collapse of a black hole, or the creation of a universe. Contemporary research also suggests that using the Earth itself in conjunction with a distant spacecraft might also be used to detect these extremely weak waves.

In 1999, Kramer's mini-van and body were found at the bottom of a canyon in California. It is believed he committed suicide.